Design for Community

We are committed to creating buildings and places that strengthen our neighbourhoods, enhance our daily lives and make our city more beautiful and connected. Since 1979, we have merged an abiding passion for design with a deeply-felt sense of responsibility to the wider community—to create a design team that innovates, client relationships that endure, buildings that inspire and environments that nurture creativity, health, spirituality and commerce.

Recent Projects

The Annex Student Residence

Functional & Contextual Design for New Student Residence — The Annex is a new mixed-use complex providing accommodations for over 500 students while reinventing a prominent Sandy Hill street corner....

526 Kenwood Avenue

Ottawa Fire Stations 36 and 55

Two sustainable and contextually-sensitive facilities for Ottawa Fire Services - Based on increasing demands, community growth and future development, the City planned for two brand new fire stations in Ottawa’s east end...

Student Life Centre, Saint‑Paul University

The Student Life Centre: A Hallmark for the Evolution of Saint-Paul University - The Student Life Centre is a reflection of Saint-Paul University’s commitment to its student body, core values, and evolution within the post-secondary marketplace...

Greystone Village: The Oblate Lands Redevelopment

Filling the Gap in Old Ottawa East - The master plan strives to provide a wide variety of housing types and tenancies with up to 1,000 dwelling units distributed throughout a street layout drawn from the surrounding community...

172 Clemow Avenue

The Experience and Delight of Space — Bold yet respectful, this Glebe home is a contemporary addition to a collection of stately residences on Clemow Ave. The material palette of limestone, wood, zinc and glass is timeless and the form draws from the history of the street...

OakWood Design Centre & Showroom

Yard & Station

A Schoolhouse Reinvention - Built in the 1930’s, this four-storey schoolhouse in Ottawa’s Hintonburg neighbourhood has served various functions over the years. The site was purchased and rezoned in 2013...

Mutchmor Public School Addition

A Playful Expression of Function, Context and History in The Glebe - Mutchmor Public School, at 185 Fifth Avenue in the Glebe, was built in 1895 as a four-room school in the Romanesque Revival style...

James Bartleman Archives & Library Materials Centre

City Archival Facility with Softened Public Elements - On the edge of Tallwood Forest at the intersection of two arterial roads (Woodroffe and Tallwood Drive) the new James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre was designed...

St. Patrick’s Home of Ottawa Long‑Term Care Facility

A New Home for an Ottawa Long-Term Care Establishment - St. Patrick’s Home has been a pillar of support in Ottawa for more than 144 years and is recognized as a community leader in the long-term care of the elderly...

Our Work

The end products of our work—the spaces, buildings, parks, and neighbourhoods of our cities—will endure and mature, becoming elements in the human story of these places. Together with our clients, Hobin Architecture is dedicated to making that story as beautiful as possible.